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MAYFIELD - In a split vote, the council moved not to build a train station in the borough.

The council has debated whether to move forward with the project for several months, but a 4-3 vote ended their involvement Wednesday. Council members Donald Mosley, Janice Joyce, Alan Kopa and Tom Gallagher voted not to build the station. George Pittsman, James Depoti and Ellen Krantz-Buskovitz voted in favor of the project.

Mr. Gallagher, reached by phone after the meeting, said it was unclear what will happen to the $10,000 Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority grant awarded to the borough for the project. He said the Shade Tree Commission may take on the project.

Ms. Strausser is in Monroe County Correctional Facility in lieu of $40,000 bail and is slated for a preliminary hearing today at 11:45 a.m.

Election fix to cost $2,300

WILKES-BARRE - Luzerne County's plan to fix the fouled-up primary elections for Hazleton Area School Board will cost $2,300, down from an initial estimate of $10,000, county chief solicitor David Pedri said.

Luzerne County failed to inform Schuylkill and Carbon counties that Steve Hahn withdrew as a school board candidate, and Mr. Hahn received votes that could have gone to other candidates. According to Mr. Pedri's proposal, the Luzerne County results from May 21 would not change because Mr. Hahn was not on the ballot in Luzerne County, and Luzerne County would print and mail absentee ballots to voters from the May 21 election in the portions of the school district in the other counties.

League president faces charges

SHICKSHINNY - State police charged the president of Northwest Area Junior Football League with stealing $15,035.50, money that had been set aside to purchase new uniforms.

Mary Elizabeth Kramer of Shickshinny diverted the funds between July and May through ATM withdrawals and checks written out to herself to feed a gambling addiction, police said Wednesday.

Ms. Kramer faces felony charges of theft and forgery. She was arraigned Wednesday morning. She remains jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $55,035 bail.

Nurse lauded for saving life

PLAINS TWP. - Though she's worked as a hospital nurse for decades, Loretta Amico never had to perform CPR on a patient.

But on Dec. 2, she had to administer it to a fellow parishioner at Our Lady of the Eucharist Church in Pittston.

A 66-year-old man passed out behind her during the Apostle's Creed. He stopped breathing, had no pulse and quickly turned purple. Ms. Amico, of Hughestown, resuscitated him and saved his life.

Her quick actions were among those highlighted at the fifth annual Heroes Breakfast presented by the American Red Cross, Wyoming Valley Chapter at the East Mountain Inn in Plains Twp.

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